Re: Framebuffer settings
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:19:22PM +0200, Denis J. Cirulis wrote:
> > Hello !
> >
> > I have ATI AGP card,debian potato with compiled in atifb module. I read all the stuff in Framebuffer-HOWTO like :
> >
> > /etc/lilo.config
> >
> > vga=792
> > append="video=matrox:...." and so on
> >
> > When i'm booting linux i see very nice penguin logo but my console is still 640x480-256 , not the mode i mentioned in lilo.
> > After the boot process i can make fbset -a "1024x768-75" and i have very nice large console.
>
> In LILO, you need to use the hex version of your setting. From looking at
> Documentation/fb/matroxfb.txt in the kernel source, you want either
> "vga=0x318" or it might be "vga=0x118" (which I assume is 1024x768 at
> 32bbp).
i too have an ATI video card in one of my machines. The 2.3.xx atyfb
server has code to switch video modes with a kernel option, but the 2.2.xx
code aparantly does not. You can run it with vesafb and pass an integer
video mode, but you won't get any acceleration.
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